Album Review

True music fans know of the power and complexities of metal. What might just sound like dissonant noise to some is profound and moving to many. Here are the ten most influential metal albums by guest contributor Jason Phillip. Black Sabbath – Paranoid Black Sabbath’s second album was a revolution for the band and music. …

When it comes to finding cool R&B/Soul and funk groups or act in Ottawa. One band comes to mind which happens to be Souljazz Orchestra who are renowned outside of Canada. But when it comes to an indie or coming up the ranks levels, there isn’t any to list on my radar. It wasn’t until …

Japanese Breakfast‘s Psychopomp is the album I should have reviewed when it came out in late-March through Yellow K Records. But I did a post back in January on the leading single and now the album has been growing on me. Now it is getting critical acclaim plus the album is getting a push in …

Split EP can be a good way to get newer audiences from two different bands. Case in point with Ottawa’s Kings Quest and Heavy Bedroom. Earlier in June they put out a split cassette with two songs each. One side you get the noisy lo-fi dream pop-rock sound of Kings Quest. On the flip-side, things …

Finally got a chance to listen to the long awaited Andy Shauf album called The Party. His last album The Bearer of Bad News originally came out in 2012 but it wasn’t until 2015 that it got the re-issue treatment. Since then his popularity of his singer-songwriter folk pop music has risen. The Party is …

While the dust has settled for excitement with the long awaited 9th album by Radiohead called A Moon Shaped Pool. With all the trend of “appointment listening” becoming a thing. This is the one I was looking forward to. A Moon Shaped Pool is what I call this year’s break-up album a-la Björk’s Vulnicura. For …

An album that comes out today and I think should get “total time” and attention is Toronto’s brother and sister trio Doomsquad. Their second album Total Time is out on Hand Drawn Dracula for Canada and Bella Union for UK/Europe. 9 tracks of pyschedelic dark, pulsating electronic beats leaving you losing track of time while …

The Ambassador of Toronto, Drake has finally dropped his fourth album called Views (I prefer Views from the 6). It’s 20 tracks which includes the big #2 hit Hotline Bling and clocking in at 73 minutes. With countless Drake’s Views that you can make yourself. There is alot hype surrounding and expectations with Views with …

It’s been a few months that this album came out quietly to the public. Toronto’s Memoryhouse was the “it” band to check out 5 years ago. With all the whirlwind they had with their dream pop music and being signed to Sub Pop. All of a sudden the duo of Evan Abeele and Denise Nouvion …

When word spread that the Montreal band Suuns was going to drop their third album in 2016, I couldn’t be any more excited! Since last year they were mostly touring and promoting a different album with Jerusalem in My Heart. Here is some tidbit on the album: “An eerily beautiful, meticulously played suite of music …